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to be contemporary with the hall in Lejre, perhaps from the 8th century. It is reasonable
to consider the hall in Uppsala one of the royal halls of this site.
16 Valsgärde. The hall in Valsgärde is a recent discovery (Norr and Sundkvist
1995). It is the main house of a large farm adjacent to the boat grave cemetery. Its
position in the landscape parallels that of the hall in Uppsala, placed on an artificially
made terrace stretching from the southwest to the northeast overlooking flat arable
land.
17 Högom house III. This house, dated to the 4th century AD, stands out in several
ways (Ramqvist 1994). It is different from the normal farmhouse of northern Sweden
(cf. Liedgren 1992) and situated under one of the big mounds at Högom.
Högom is in all probability a royal site and the hall a building with several functions.
18 Borg in Lofoten. The main farmhouse on Borg has several functions. One of the
rooms is the hall room. Guldgubbar in the postholes, broken glass and finds connected
with handicraft characterise the room (Munch et al. 1989; Munch 1990) as
a chieftain’s hall. There are three main houses in a series in the same spot and they
constitutes a small stratigraphical sequence dated between the 6th and the 10th century
AD.
19 Yeavering. (Hope-Taylor 1977). Known historically, like Lejre and Old
Uppsala, as a royal farm, the site contains a number of halls. Dating to the 7th and
8th century. The halls at Yeavering are roughly contemporary with those in Lejre and
Old Uppsala. Contrary to these sites, however, Yeavering is a solitary farm on which
a King could be expected to stay only temporarily.
20 Cowdery’s Down. (Millet and James 1983).The tentatively identified halls at
Cowdery’s Down from the 5th century are prototypes of the Anglo-Saxon hall of
which there are such splendid examples in Yeavering. The halls are, however, also of
the same kind as that at Wijster (No. 1).
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